The Mayday Market – A Free Market for All Who Need It! 🗓 One Day Only – Saturday June 24th 📍 Martingrove Collegiate | 10:00am-2:00pm 🛍 Clothing, housewares, toys, furniture & more — all free. We're opening our hearts and our closets. The Mayday Market is a one-day, open-air event offering free donated goods to […]
Schumann’s “Spring Symphony” and Canadian Composer Alice Ho’s “Jubilations of Spring” are perfect pieces to re-energize and revive our spirits, reflecting this time of growth and fresh starts. Special guest soprano Natalya Gennadi soars in Estacio's “Filumena”, Novello's “We’ll Gather Lilacs in the Spring” and familiar operatic excerpts from Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” along with its […]
Deeply moving works that will be cathartic for you as they were for their composers across three different centuries. Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 10 A melancholy waltz, machine gun fire, a secret lover’s name… it’s all in this powerful and deeply moving masterwork – a Russian's journey from suffering through defiance and ultimately to strength […]
Sometimes ‘greatness’ is not immediately perceived. Each piece in this concert was initially met with skepticism or scorn but is now counted among the greatest music ever written. Beethoven’s "Eroica" initially had mixed reviews but he considered it his most important symphony, as would future generations. Soloist Erika Raum will prove Tchaikovsky was right about […]
On October 18th, please join us for Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra first concert of the 2024/25 season ... Autumn Radiance Concert. The performance will take place at Martingrove Collegiate starting at 8pm. The doors open at 7.30pm https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/etobicoke-philharmonic-orchestra-29601704531
In this concert, composers invite you to 'see' with your ears and heart. On a visit to Fingal’s Cave in Scotland, Felix Mendelssohn sketched a twenty-one measure theme which later became the Hebrides Overture. Brahms, too, was a master of music as a postcard, a photo, of a place by evoking its mood and 'colours' […]
Michael Berkovsky plays the mighty Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in this concert of contrasts. It also features Beethoven's delightful Symphony No. 4 and contemporary composer Andrew Balfour’s haunting “Pyotr’s Dream", all led by Music Director Matthew Jones. This concert will thrill, intrigue, amuse... and perhaps delightedly exhaust you!
The mighty “Titan” Symphony by Mahler evokes both the passion of humanity and power of nature. Kevin Lau’s “Sea of Blossoms” contrasts this with expressing nature’s delicacy. Arias from Mozart, Puccini, Delibes and Lehar capture the range of human passion. This will be a deeply moving concert!
The mighty “Titan” Symphony by Mahler evokes both the passion of humanity and power of nature. Kevin Lau’s “Sea of Blossoms” contrasts this with expressing nature’s delicacy. Arias from Mozart, Puccini, Delibes and Lehar capture the range of human passion. This will be a deeply moving concert!
Antonin Dvořák’s FROM THE NEW WORLD Symphony, composed after a visit to the New World, demonstrates that new experiences are often a source of inspiration. We take this cue with adding pieces new to us by “African Mahler” Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Canadian Larysa Kuzmenko and our latest Young Composers Competition winner, Umberto Quattrociocchi. Pre-concert chat at […]
Antonin Dvořák’s FROM THE NEW WORLD Symphony, composed after a visit to the New World, demonstrates that new experiences are often a source of inspiration. We take this cue with adding pieces new to us by “African Mahler” Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Canadian Larysa Kuzmenko and our latest Young Composers Competition winner, Umberto Quattrociocchi. Pre-concert chat at […]
Join the Etobicoke Philharmonic for our "Fireworks of Sound" concert: “Dazzling” describes Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, particularly in the hands of our soloist Kara Huber. Gary Kulesha’s dramatic “Fireworks and Processional”, Louise Farrenc “Symphony No. 2”– she quite the “firecracker” in her day, defying the assumption that only males could be composers – and […]
Special guest superstar soloist TSO concertmaster Jonathan Crow joins us to celebrate our covid-delayed 60th anniversary! Hear him play the Brahms’ Violin Concerto right here in Etobicoke before he performs it downtown with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Mendelssohn’s wonderful Symphony 5 ‘Reformation’ is a fitting choice for this belated celebratory concert: it was written to […]
